Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 July 2013
230. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of international students registered in Irish institutions of higher learning in each of the past five years and to date in 2013. [36303/13]
View answerFully comparable data for the number of full and part-time international students registered in public and private Irish Higher Education Institutes are only available for the years 2009 to 2012. They are as follows:
2011/12 - 32,000
2010/11 - 29,000
2009/10 - 25,000
They are taken from an annual survey conducted by Enterprise Ireland and published on the Education in Ireland website at www.educationireland.com.
These figures include students registered in Irish HEIs but studying overseas e.g. on branch campuses or on joint degree programmes.
